New Lightweight Linux Desktop for Notebooks

Since ultra low-cost notebooks are the rage these days and that Linux is becoming a more “pedestrian” OS, lightweight desktop management environments are becoming more popular.
Let’s face it: anything from Microsoft is a resource hog right now and Linux is just too alien for most people.
Things are changing however:
…gOS, the Linux distro that made a [...]

Lose Weight by playing a Role Playing Game

Check this out:
Why did Weight Watchers work so well? For a really fascinating reason: because it isn’t a normal diet. It’s something more. Something fun.
It’s an RPG.
The Weight Watchers program is designed precisely like a role-playing dungeon crawler. That’s why people love it, stick to it and have success with it. And it points to [...]

Gadgets for Olympic Events

Since the Olympics season and this being a geek site, it seems appropriate to link to the following:
Legal Ways to Boost Performance in Sports

…the Respro Sportsta, which allows high volumes of clean air to move through the openings, and includes HEPA-type filtration (like that found in your vacuum cleaner) to strip out Beijing air’s high [...]

Minifigs re-enact famous photos

Now, this is just cute. I wish I thought of it first. Mike Stimpson combined his love of both Legos and photography to give tribute to both.
A lot of the photos he recreated are historic and iconic. Some are actually chilling but with the use of minifigs, it can be a bit of confusing–the photos [...]

Katamari Damacy Prince of the Cosmos Baby Bonnet

Cower in the face of cuteness!

Instructions for making one (the bonnet, not the baby) can be found in this blog.

Amazing Sailfish Photos

Really cool-looking underwater photos of sailfish preying on a really big school of sardines! The sailfish–which can change colors–are breathtaking with iridescence when they’re excited.

Link to photo gallery via National Geographic